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Understanding “software-defined” from an OS perspective: technical challenges and research issues

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This work was supported in part by National Natural Science Foundation of China (Grant No. 61421091). The author wants to thank Professor Yao Guo and anonymous reviewers for insightful comments and suggestions that help improve this work.

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Mei, H. Understanding “software-defined” from an OS perspective: technical challenges and research issues. Sci. China Inf. Sci. 60, 126101 (2017). https://doi.org/10.1007/s11432-017-9240-4

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